Michael Mullany

Michael Mullany is CEO of Sencha. He has held product and executive marketing roles at influential Silicon Valley startups Netscape, Loudcloud and VMware. At virtualization leader VMware, he served as the vice president of worldwide marketing during its break-out into server computing. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Harvard College.

This week, we've been putting both the iPad 4 and the Microsoft Surface
tablet through their paces. In our testing, we're happy to say that both
tablets are very solid HTML5 platforms. Internet Explorer 10 on the Surface
has a broad, well implemented HTML5 feature set that mostly meets and
occasionally exceeds mobile Safari's. On the performance front, the iPad 4
leads in raw JavaScript and Canvas performance while the Surface has a faster
SVG implementation. Having comprehensive, high performance HTML5 support is
now a "must-have" feature for new mobile devices. For end users, both these
devices promise great user experiences from well-designed HTML5 apps.
Going into our testing, we were bringing expectations set by the iPad 3 and
our developer hardware for Windows 8. When we reviewed the iPad 3 in the
Spring, we were disappointed with iPad performance. Ordinary web... (more)